listy

in an effort to keep myself on track from a dietary perspective, i though i might sometimes share what i eat each day (this will also help me post regularly).

and, i'd like to mix these food lists with someone other random dribble.

for instance:

so far today, i have consumed:

• Breakfast:
• 2 TJ's banana waffles with syrup (mmmm, these taste like yum!)
• one handful of bing cherries secured at last thursday's local farmer's market
• 1/3 of my cup of decaf coffee with splenda and skim milk (mostly b/c whomever made the coffee today, made it so weak that it was like milk flavored water - ick!)

• AM Snack:
• 1 stick reduced fat string cheese
• one handful bing cherries (see above)
• 5 saltine crackers (free from work)

• Lunch:
• one whole wheat tortilla
• one can tuna
• some mayo
• copious amounts of spinach
• 1/3 of my water bottle, plus a can of sparkling water (free from work)

My bi-weekly delivery of organic fruits and vegetables arrives today so that will help dictate what i inhale for dinner. i also plan to attempt my old 3-mile running course plus do some home weight lifting in my living room. this may or may not be jillian michaels style (just kidding, i never make myself work out hard enough to puke).

in other related (or actually completely unrelated) randomness, last night we started our new summer bowling league and boy oh boy are we in for a treat. some of our old league friends are still playing along, but we have some interesting new characters including old bedazzler (a man who was wearing an eagle bedazzled on his t-shirt and a "503" baseball cap), hard core bowler (an 18-year old who has been bowling every saturday since he was 4) and everyone will hate me guy (the tatooed loud mouth who announced during our team meeting that everyone would either love or hate him by the end of the season).

can't wait to see who we play next week...

Loser

i seem to be losing things left and right lately, mostly accessories. In the past few weeks, I've lost all of the following:

• 2 of the 5 rings belonging to my stackable ring set - one fell into the deep wastebasket in the women's bathroom at work, the other i lost in the LA airport. for the record, i did dig through a portion of the wastebasket, but then go embarrassed and just let it go.
• my silver matte dome ring. i took it with me to seattle a couple weeks ago, i did not return home with it
• my fabulous silver flower ring, the last time i saw it was on my cruise

the good news is that none of these was expensive (thankfully), but they were some of my current favorite accessories, no more.

in other good news, today i'm wearing a button down shirt and the ladies aren't busting out of it so if that's not a good monday, i don't know what is.

Fatty McFatterson

i haven't been posting here b/c i haven't been feeling particularly inspired to share the sordid details of my weight gain with the world.

the boy and i recently took a cruise and then i came home and managed to binge on things like cheeseburgers and beer with no exercise until suddenly i realized about a week ago that i now weigh as much as i did when i moved to pdx 4 years ago (and was also very unhappy) and that i only have two pairs of pants to wear which is why i've actually been wearing dresses to work 2-4 days a week. not, as i previously thought, because i suddenly enjoyed how feminine they make me feel.

since i lost about 15 pounds 4 years ago, i've, for the most part, been really good about eating well and exercising and have managed to stay within about 3-4 pounds of that weight until recently. last week i realized that i've gone so far past the point of no return that i no longer have the motivation to fix this on my own and that i needed to go back to training with a professional to keep me on track.

enter last night:

last night i might have fibbed to my trainerfriend about how much i had been working out and also maybe told her i wanted to be sore today. so, as asked, she kicked my fat little ass and went all jillian michaels on me, to the point where i almost threw up on her gym floor. (thankfully, she suddenly realized i was white as a sheet and made me go lay down and do ab exercises lest i projectile vomit while lifting weights).

i'm pleased to say that today, i feel only moderately sore with what i'm sure is a complete freeze up of unused muscles coming tomorrow. my biggest discomfort today comes in the form of a pain between my two seemingly gigantic ass cheeks where they rubbed up the bicycle seat for far longer than they would've preferred. yep, you heard it here first, my ass cheeks are a whining.

anyway, since i can't regale you with dating stories since theboy is pretty much fantastic and even cooked me a healthy dinner last night for my post-workout nutritution, you now get to spend the next few months with me figuring out how to get back into my size 4 clothes and dealing with my body whining every time i deny it a beer and offer it a 12-lb weight.

cheers.

ps - i totally have a little girl crush on jillian michaels. her angry demeanor seems to work for people and her 30-day shred is a great quick workout when i don't have time for much else.